William Henry Fitzhugh Lee

Biography

William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (1837–1891) served as a military officer with a sense of duty shaped by his distinguished family heritage and the trials of his time. Despite the storms of conflict, he maintained loyalty to the men he led and a desire to protect those in his charge.

He is honored at Lee Chapel, where his name rests in the place that commemorates the courage and complexity of the era in which he lived.